Checking in for 2023-12-23:

I mentioned my morning in the previous post. Well, when you start your day with that it's not hard to do better. JoDee and I spent part of the day cleaning up the house and then watched the Barbie movie with Sarah, my sister-in-law. I think …

Content warning: bodily functions a-plenty in this one.

I've mentioned before that my medications can give me an alternating constipation and diarrhea. Most of my anti-nausea drugs have constipation as one of their side-effects, and many of my chemotherapy drugs have diarrhea as one of their main side-effects. This can …

Checking in for 2023-12-22:

I have a new drug for combating severe nausea should I need it. It's Olanzapine (nee: Zyprexa), which can also be used to combat bipolar disorders. The intersection between nausea for cancer patients and drugs for mental wellness is pretty interesting to me. I think part …

Checking in for 2023-12-21:

Right now I'm drinking contrast for my CT scan. I took today easy since yesterday I had several episodes of not keeping things down. Overall today was much better. I decided to relax and just be with whatever came up. That seems to be the way …

Content warning: bodily functions.

Checking in for 2023-12-20:

Today was a bust. I woke up feeling slightly queasy but didn't think anything of it. I also had a bit of a headache so I took an ibuprofen. I started to eat some cereal. Within five minutes I puked up said …